| PARKER'S RESTAURANT This sophisticated, 159-year-old restaurant invented Boston scrod (fresh white fish), Parker House rolls and the official dessert of Massachusetts: Boston cream pie ($6.50 for a piece). You can still order the classic and taste it in its truest form: sponge cake layered with thick vanilla custard and topped with a slick of chocolate glaze. (60 School St., 617-227-8600) |
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FINALE This hopping, dessert-centric spot serves all sorts of artful, tasty sweets, like a comma-shaped, polka-dotted version of the legendary cream pie with vanilla gelato, apricot sauce and whoopie pies ($11). (Multiple locations, including 1 Columbus Ave., 617-423-3184) |
